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Thread #44047   Message #4105486
Posted By: GUEST
10-May-21 - 08:22 AM
Thread Name: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation
Subject: RE: Help: Wrekin - pronunciation
The Housman poem referring to the Wrekin (Shropshire Lad XXXI) has indeed been set to music. Mike Raven used a traditional tune (but I can't remember which, offhand, if I actually knew). More famously, perhaps, it's the first part of Vaughan Williams' song cycle 'On Wenlock Edge'.